Oh he had plenty of spotlight time. He's just been slowly descending into nonsense. My theory is: he's surrounding himself by people who put him on a pedestal

Oh he had plenty of spotlight time. He's just been slowly descending into nonsense. My theory is: he's surrounding himself by people who put him on a pedestal and will therefore only be yes-men. In such a situation I imagine that you lose track of what's a reasonable way of thinking, and possibly remove the few remaining sensible people out of your life because they tend to disagree with you.